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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Machine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Life in the city.
(b) Return to nature.
(c) Return to the city.
(d) Life in nature.

2. What virtues did Jefferson associate with the civilization?
(a) Creativity and inspiration.
(b) Ingenuity and technology.
(c) Intellect and privilege.
(d) Creativity and inspiration.

3. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?
(a) To live out a primitive existence.
(b) To turn nature into an industrial resource.
(c) To live in the lap of nature.
(d) To transform nature into an ordered place.

4. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?
(a) Imported grain.
(b) Natives' produce.
(c) Nature's bounty.
(d) Money from exports.

5. What criticism did Carlyle make of American industrialism?
(a) He protested the destruction of indigenous societies.
(b) He lamented the death of wildlife.
(c) He complained about the decline of marriage in cities.
(d) He decried the disruption of nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

2. What was the general feeling about industrialism in America, as it expanded?

3. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?

4. What does Marx point out was formed as a result of the Revolutionary War?

5. How does industrialism devalue man, in Carlyle's opinion?

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